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I applaud GitHub. However, I think no matter how valiant they are they will not climb out from under this. The scale problem will keep getting worse, and it's getting worse in a way I don't think is translating to more money for them. Sooner or later, they're going to have to charge for things currently free. I've been saying this for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534499
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Why don’t you have your actions run on pr or push instead of on commit? Why would you even want that? I’ve never seen actions set up that way. If I push a branch with 100 commits then it’ll only run CI once. It’ll show the rest of the commits in the UI, sure, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the same performance impact. It could very well be 1 db transaction with multiple rows written instead of 100. I think you’re re…
Github runs CI per PR push (obviously), and per main-branch commit (click on commit history in any project with CI, see a build result check mark on each one - that's true if you push a dozen commits too (I've done that)), in nearly all setups I've seen. I'm not sure how much of that is required vs default though. With enough effort, you can rather obviously run CI per PR commit (it's a programmable system), but I've…
"Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. " Wow, that is some incredible growth in a really short time.
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Bonkers is right. Where in those ~12 billion commits is the software, products and "innovations" which are supposed to be making our lives better? Software and apps in particular are getting worse, normies hate AI more than ever because they're even less likely to get their desired outcome when calling their doctor or trying to get their online order refunded when chatting with a cutely named chatbot, wages for (most…
This comment comes up over and over again and it's incredibly ignorant. To give just a single example, ai code dev has enabled people to make tools for themselves that they didn't have before. I've made a language learning app for myself. Its working better than Duolingo so far, for me. Its not really public
"Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. " Wow, that is some incredible growth in a really short time.
"We have since added more than 3 million CPU cores, 120 petabytes of high-speed storage, and significant network capacity"
"Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. " Wow, that is some incredible growth in a really short time.
LOL, this kind of things will happen when projects like Bun ( https://github.com/oven-sh/bun ) are running on auto. :)
I am currently using bun, but may have to switch. I can't see how this can possibly turn out well in the long run...
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So much more stuff and growing- what it is actually useful for ? Are we getting actually more done than with previous volumes or is it just all wasted energy?
Has anyone noticed an increase in the quality, performance or capabilities of the software they use?
What I have noticed an increase though is in demands and pressure to deliver.
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That's how it's sold, but have you heard about any major tech company that sends their worker home when they've achieved what they used to achieve pre-AI? EDIT: Instead of simply down-voting, you're welcome to name examples that proves me wrong ;)
This is anecdotal, but I know that a lot of my coworkers and coasting and putting up one AI generated PR per day which they've hardly even self reviewed.
So, if it doesn't then you learned something about your workplace (and it's not good).
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The whole point of exponential backoff is that the first retry can be quick.
The right answer is for the RPC framework to accurately communicate "try again on another node" vs "don't try again, just hard fail". When one end user request fans out to hundreds of backend requests (typical for microservices), you can't have each of those backend requests do its own exponential backoff. If they do it in parallel, they're a thundering herd, and if they do it in serial, the end user request will tim…